Newspaper reporting suicide and altitude health as accidents
Your article piqued my curiosity about the people you mentioned in the article. As we track accidents in the sahyadri for our personal understanding.
I
did not know arun samant and mixed up his name with another well known
trekker with the same name who died at Harishchandragad . But I started
googling his last trek in the Himalayas based on your article's
information .
. It was later found that the team was underprepared and did not carry food or other supplies to the summit, causing Samant’s death due to exhaustion.
while
it's true about the food rations . From the articles on the incident .
It looks like something happened to him at the top (probably had some
heart attack as he was in his 50s though no mention of anything in the
trek reports. ) . After reading about legendary mountaineer Conrad Anker suffered a "widowmaker" heart attackin 2016 it is very possible .
Arun was with Peak I team led by Ang Kami, highly experienced Pasang Temba Sherpa, two Sherpa porters and Nitin Patel, a young IIT first class first student, from Saurashtra.https://www.harishkapadia.com/
Arun Samant according to Dhananjay was very tired, exhausted and moving extremely slowly. It became impossible for Arun to stand on his own and Dhananjay had to belay him from behind which delayed their descent further.https://www.himalayanclub.org/
well known in mountaineering circles for well-planned expeditions to unexplored Himalayan regions, and climbs of un-attempted Himalayan peaks.https://www.himalayanclub.org/
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The second was Navi Mumbai law student Shreya Patil.
Patil had gone to Tiger Point in Lonavla for a solo trek on January 30
From the videos and bystanders . It looks like a sad story of mental health and not a trek accident.
The big question is did she go there to die?
This location is not usually a place people go for treks.
she stood unusually still, staring into the 400-foot valley below.
Muskan says a deep sense of dread stayed with her. “I felt she was waiting—to be alone, for darkness,”
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